Basile

Hi Action, As I've used your wonderful reviews for many purchases, I thought I'd offer mine of this. BRILLIANT!! From first blast (definitely a blast) to final notes...an overwhelmingly warm, tingly and luscious journey. Lasts long, great sillage....but a soft around you sillage, not knock them out across the room. On me opens with ....licorice???? and a nice bracing citrus combined with spice. Then, the spiciness mellows, becomes more woody and earthy and seems balanced with that bracing citrus tone and the rose and iris notes. One of those where you keep smelling yourself just to enjoy it. I agree with Vena w and guest, very much in that spicy family like opium...but what it most made me think of was a soft, balanced more woody less spicy version of Youth Dew. A definite rebuyer, and now I have the terrible task of deciding which of my beautiful newfound fumes to wear today!! 10/10 for this one. Quite cheap, but with a very expensive feeling...

Very reasonable price... and honestly.... I didn't expect this kind of high level fragrance. It's something special and would be hard to compare it with anything else in my collection. Basile opens with special mix of cinamon and tangerine, some sweet flowers and hidden note of wood. Than woodsy note becomes more and more powerfull. And here it is, the most beautifull part of Basile when all those notes blend together in a woodsy incense dry down. It's mistique and it works spiritual and somehow rich. But not in tipical oriental way. Orientals are usually more sweet. The sweetness of Basile comes from white flowers and ylang-ylang and is therefore somehow gently sweet. To make my review shorter -this stuff is superb and you will not regret if you purchase!!

Now THIS is a beautiful warm, spicy, sweet perfume. I bought Casmir hoping to get THIS scent but was quite disappointed. So far, this is the closest to my favourite love, Fendi EDP. It doesn't have as many notes as Fendi EDP & not quite as colorful, but it is the closest I have found so far. Absolutely beautiful. I can smell the cloves, orange and amber which give it that wonderful warmth. I am soooo impressed. I bought the EDT ... for a very good price, but the EDP must be incredible ... but at $150 for 100 ml ... it's beyond my budget. I think I'm partial to Italian perfumes .... Basile, Fendi, Krizia, Gianfranco Ferre, Ungaro.

Oh this is Divine!!!! It's my favourite scent at the moment!!! It's beautiful!!! Heavenly!! Such gorgeous spicy flowers, such delicious sweet and tangy, juicy citrus', such a FABULOUS, aromatic, earthy, sweet and rich dry-down, that goes on for ages!!! The whole perfume, with all the divine notes coming and going, and shifting and changing, right from beginning to end - oh bliss!!! It's luxurious, exotic, refined and elegant, sensual and exuberant!!! I LOVE it!!! And the bottle is superb - so calming and peaceful looking - so contented and demure and feminine. Gorgeous!!!

I totally favor Basile over Opium! It seems rounder somehow and the opening tangerine sets it apart from many other Oriental style fragrances. Basile's warm, ambery and floral dry down lasts a long time on my skin and finishes with oakmoss and sandalwood. I don't get much patchouli. I use the vintage EDP. Vintage Basile is a quality fragrance for a really low price (when you can find it). The newer version EDT is lovely too.